My dog barking alarm goes off on my iPhone, which means it's time to go feed the horses. I stop my post and put on clothes to go outside in the almost March-like weather we're having today. It's windy and twenty degrees, as opposed to the minus five it was yesterday. This is not normal for Iowa. The weather has become more and more violent, with mood swings worse than mine when I still had hormones. The snow is still thick on the ground, with little crystals picked up by the wind and swirled through my dangling wind chimes on the patio. My other gray cat, a half-Abyssinian, Lilly, sidles over wanting to be petted too, and asking for food. She sees Sonya and leaps in from of her, hissing, making herself big, and crab-walking toward her. The dogs run over to join in the cat fight. I break it up. Can't we all just get along so I can go back to OS?!
At the horses I go though the morning feed and letting them out into the pasture. I listen to the horses eating their grain, and their hay. A feeling of calm comes over me. I wonder if the OS person complaining about the uselessness of the weathermen in Boston realizes what a difference a connection with the weather and the animals and plants makes in the life of your soul? When I first got horses, I realized how little I had been participating in the environment around me. How winter had become just running from a warm house to a warm car to a warm building. And now, with horses and a farm, my relationship with weather and the natural world is a much more intimate one. We're on a first name basis. I like the weather. I like the seasons, as much as I complain about them and am constantly looking for a place with better weather. I am glad that the blizzard is not just a picture outside my window. With this intimate relationship with the weather, I realize her power. In the city, do you forget that Nature has the power to flatten every building you build and reduce it to rubble? Nature has the power to inundate your basements and your buildings, swirling flood waters through all of your man-made constructs, around and through your dikes and high tide walls. And she is going to do it, if we keep ignoring her. We have had a free ride, sucking up all of the oil and coal and using it to power our cities so we wouldn't have to think of nature. Our big by-pass is about to be called in. The Second Law of Thermodynamics, that energy can neither be created or destroyed, the incredible equalizing law, is going to come due. It doesn't matter whether you believe in global warming or science or that god is punishing us...this is going to happen. I am glad that I have made friends with Mother Nature. It won't be quite as much of a shock when we are forced to listen to the gods of the Native Americans and return to harmony with the World or die.
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